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I tried to think about why I was upset. Probably Hannah's letter, I assumed. It made me feel better in a big way. In a smaller way I could read her anger in the letter. She shouldn't have to go through life permanently furious. It wouldn't be healthy.
I was worried about my daughter. That's what had me upset.
"These are...strange," I said as Evan pulled a white shirt over my head and tucked it in to my pants.
The leather of the pants wasn't touching me. There seemed to be a linen layer inside of them. I asked about it and the men didn't have an answer. That's how pants were made. Tomorrow they would slip a new linen in before they put them on me.
"It'sunderwear," I said as Bane put my boots on my feet.
"Earth word," Kein answered strapping the sword to my waist.
The men stepped back and admired their handiwork for a moment. Evan finished dressing me by pulling my hair back into a tie. They all looked quite satisfied with themselves.
"Come on, then," Bane said happily pulling the door open, "time to learn to fight!"
We walked into the sunshine and I relished having on clothes, a full outfit, for the first time on this world. I kicked rocks and walked around getting used to wearing shoes. Unlike my soft leather foot covers these had a thick sole and it felt like asteeltoe.
"What are you doing?" Damien asked with his arms spread wide.
"She wanders," Christof explained. "I told you, she likes to walk in circles."
I looked at them and rolled my eyes.
We spent the afternoon outside in a field by the cabin. I soon realized teaching was Bane's skill. He had a seeming endless supply of patience. As long as I was really trying he would let me learn at my own pace.
Bane's tolerance only faded if I was lazy. If I wasn't paying enough attention or not trying hard enough, I got the flat side of his blade.
"That hurts!" I yelled after the fifth time he slapped the outside of my thigh.
He wasn't deterred and demanded I pay attention.
It was a frustrating and difficult lesson. I knew most of their moves, in a fashion. I had planted memories of them. My muscles had no experience, though. What I thought I was doing and what I was actually doing were two very different things.
According to Evan and Damien it was fun to watch. They sat on the sidelines laughing and talking about my performance. When Bane wanted to show me something one of them would come forward and demonstrate. That was the only time they shut up all afternoon.
Kein and Christof occasionally stopped by to check on us. It appeared they were hunting down supper and getting it prepared. Christof was kind enough not to comment on my ineptitude and Kein just sighed.
The training didn't stop until nightfall. I was hot, dirty, and sore by the time it was over.
"Hannah was a better fighter than you are," Damien informed me casually as we ate.
I took a drink to avoid choking on my food. It wasn't clear how he knew that.
"The day she attacked us," Christof said. "We got a good look at her skill, she was quite talented."
I smiled and sent a silent thank you to the heavens. It relieved me to hear they thought she was strong.
After dinner we sat around and played a card game. I wore my new linen nightdress for the second time. It felt nice and normal.
Looking around the table I saw my family, not my Masters. They had freed me, but protected me out of love. There was nothing I would not do for these men.
The nightly sex was no longer job; it was bonding. Every touch of skin reminded me how much we cared for one another. I found myself craving them as much as they craved me.
We spent four days at the cabin. I trained hard in the day. My muscles were sore, but it was a good sore. I didn't make a huge improvement, but I did get better.
"You could best a shopkeeper, perhaps," Kein said as we loaded the transport to ride home.
"A young shopkeeper," Evan amended.
"If he was unarmed," Damien added, lifting the last of our bags up.
I just stuck my tongue out at them. It wasn't my fault. I'd never been trained like this before.
We zipped toward the compound and the men stood casually talking as Kein drove.
I looked back at the mountains and smiled. Hannah was somewhere out there. She was successful and it made me proud.
I asked Damien to talk to Nu-reeh, I'd love to see her. He said he had already planned to ask, he was just waiting for their coupling. Satisfied and happy I rode back to the compound.
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- COMMENTS
skippersdadabout 1 year agoStill good story,but the Men still treat her like a slave and she likes it. Still hope Hanna comes to the rescue.
xyz123446over 1 year agoAgreeing with both of the last two anonymous posters:
1. This would be a quite good novel even if you heavily edited down most of the explicit stuff. I hope DW does that or even did that, their profile was last updated 6 years ago…
2. I was going to comment on it a bit later but Rose has quite a story to tell, idk if DW would like to explore it because it seems like it’d cover a lot of the same ground as Ciara’s story but with 70 years of stagnation at the keepers. We get an “ending” of her tale along with Ciara’s in later chapters where we see some of that at least. DW clearly dropped a lot in the last chapters to finish the story so I wonder if the original plan was to look into that more.
More generally commenting on this chapter… the comments on BDSM are interesting because they were criticizing DW for possibly making Ciara into a pain slut or something. But looking in world I see that the danger being introduced is that paterians don’t know what BDSM as we understand it is. There are no limits established or even implied and there is not even a true understanding of psychology or physiology. That is *very* dangerous.
A previous commenter said “Damien is a natural dom” - sure that’s a surface reading based on the website we’re on ;). But there’s a lot more going on there. The brothers are often treated as separate by Ciara and commenters but are for most purposes they are one mind and *have been since childhood*. Damien is “dominant” because he is “first” and publicly speaks whatever the family consensus is. The way their bond works means that while they will debate, eventually some sort of consensus is reached if only to avoid pain. That consensus can be agreeing to disagree which is where their compulsive gambling comes from. Strong disagreement? Fine, 5 way bet, move on, see what happens. If they didn’t do that however, presumably there’d be enough pain feeding into their tempers and they’d spiral until they break. This means that when making a decision as a family if there is no immediate discomfort they barrel ahead as a unit and that once a consensus is reached there’s a lot of inertia.
How does this apply to Ciara? Well, she’s been part of their bond before and they could sense her strong disapproval of certain things and just avoid that. While they can and did “out vote her” when a majority felt strong, they also did just do slightly different things just because her disagreement for something was a mild pain point and it was no big deal to just avoid those things. This is what truly made her family in their mind.
Without the bond and thinking of her as family however we have a big problem. Now when they are making decisions she’s not “in the bond” to make a private equally weighted vote that causes discomfort. If Ciara is family and an equal “sister” then if there isn’t pain in the bond then whatever they’re planning or doing can’t be that bad. This is also why they just up and decided to get her a sword and the same clothes - go with the flow, this is how family works. She’s at a huge disadvantage say in the market in this chapter because she can’t talk in the family mind. She also can’t get the family feeling of “of course I need to learn to use a sword, it’s what we’ve always done”. The brothers
Spoilers… if you’re rereading you know some very bad things are about to happen because of these mechanics. They use the 5v1 thing to *rape* her. Further spoilers… this is why the “real” spouse bond works very differently. In an extreme disagreement t Ciara is supposed to be able to say “good bye” into the hive mind, turn it off and fly away from the 5 of them, then briefly flicking the bond on and off to ask if they’ve ready to listen to reason.
This is such a neatly crafted story with so much going on. I really can’t say that enough and I hope you’re still reading these comments.
Anonymousabout 2 years agoI love this story! I wish we had more insight into the private conversations between other earth women and their owners.
Anonymousover 4 years agoI hate and love this story. Love because I enjoy good fantasy and challenging scifi. Hate because I can't tell my friends and family about the great novel I'm reading, or why I suddenly want to talk about weird subjects like parenting flying children. I agree with another comment that the sex doesn't turn me on much, but I still enjoy what their interactions reveal about the characters. Well done.
jott50over 9 years agothe mailed package with the secret letter was brilliant.
i have an idea of where this series will end...i will let you know if i am correct.
